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The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2007

"for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory"
Leonid Hurwicz Eric S. Maskin Roger B. Myerson
© University of Minnesota Photo: E. Ayoubzadeh © The Nobel Foundation Photo: U. Montan © The Nobel Foundation Photo: U. Montan
Leonid Hurwicz Eric S. Maskin Roger B. Myerson
third 1/3 of the prize third 1/3 of the prize third 1/3 of the prize
USA USA USA
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN, USA		 Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton, NJ, USA		 University of Chicago
Chicago, IL, USA
b. 1917
(in Moscow, Russia)
d. 2008		 b. 1950 b. 1951
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